V. I. Lenin

Notes on Co-Operation

Written:Written in March, not later than 16, 1919Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

      page130.2.Translated:Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:D. WaltersCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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Shouldnot § 1 be thrown out?

Notesto § 2 and § 3 to be removed.

Notless than two-thirds of the membership of every
co-operative should belong to the proletariat or semi-proletariat (i.e., to
persons living solely or to the extent of not less than 50 per cent by the
sale of their labour power).

Agenciesof the workers’ co-operatives send commissars
to the co-operatives having over ten per cent of their members belonging to
the propertied classes. The commissars have the right of supervision and
control, as well as the right of veto, decisions thus vetoed being
submitted for final settlement to the agencies of the S.E.C.

||What form of expression may practical co-operation of
the commercial and industrial employees’ unions take?

||What about introducing a number of substantial bonuses
and benefits for co-operatives that have embraced the whole population?

Municipalitiesuniting the whole population around
municipal shops.